science

what is science...

the oxford dictionary definition:
"the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment"

Wikipedia says:
"... science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge based on the scientific method, as well as to the organized body of knowledge gained through such research."

this blog entry is about... its about science and me... if you have understood God and science then this would make much more sense to you...


when i'm stuck with work - its science to the rescue...
when i have emotional issues - i've friends who help me out...

i'm a catholic (although the last time i went to church was so far back that i dont even remember)...

i studied in a catholic school and i've heard people say "if you pray and if you faith is strong God will answer your prayers..."

but heres the thing... there is something wrong in the prayer... 'cos sometimes we pray for things that conflict with what God had supposedly said...
like when He made man or woman or whatever it says in Genesis Chapter 1... He says that He made man (human) in His image and gave him freedom...
so if i want want to move left and if you're praying that i should move right - God will not answer your prayer... but that again is true only if He is a scientific God

i also realized that most of the answers to my day to day activities lie i science... hence the "science be praised"... "in science we trust"... "may science guide you"... "oh my science"...

i believe in God... sorta... and i kinda keep him for special occasions...

if science is getting in the way of your faith... whatever the religion is... then you've failed to understand science...

science is purposeful... even the random nature of science is purposeful...

on TV i saw this 'physicist' in a white meditation suit trying to provide scientific justification to Buddhism... and i'm sure there are 'scientists' who try to explain the resurrection of Jesus... or disprove it... so i see the purpose of these people were to elevate the ego of some extremist and themselves!

here are some quotations by various scientists about what they felt about science...

"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree." - Albert Einstein

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." - Albert Einstein

"The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living. I am not speaking, of course, of the beauty which strikes the senses, of the beauty of qualities and appearances. I am far from despising this, but it has nothing to do with science. What I mean is that more intimate beauty which comes from the harmonious order of its parts, and which a pure intelligence can grasp." - Henri Poincaré

"Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and of no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance; the more we feel how much remains unknown; and in philosophy, the sentiment of the Macedonian hero can never apply,- there are always new worlds to conquer." – Sir Humphry Davy

"There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors." - Robert Oppenheimer

"Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors." - Thomas Henry Huxley

"Scientific thought is the common heritage of mankind." - Abdus Salam

"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge." - Copernicus

"Physics is like sex: Sure, it may have practical results, but that is not the reason we do it." - Richard Feynman

"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." - Edsger Dijkstra

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience." - Albert Einstein

"The antagonism between science and religion, about which we hear so much, appears to me purely factitious, fabricated on the one hand by short-sighted religious people, who confound [...] theology with religion; and on the other by equally short-sighted scientific people who forget that science takes for its province only that which is susceptible of clear intellectual comprehension." - Thomas Henry Huxley

"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." - Albert Einstein

sankara

I watched sankara today... and guess who was seated next to me??? sachini...
the story is deep...
watch the trailer

hell

shyam shyam sent me this e-mail about hell.....

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Shehal shehal,

thought u would enjoy this :)

The following is an actual question given on a University of
Washington chemistry mid-term. The answer by one student was so "profound"
that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is,
of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well :

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat)
or endothermic (absorbs heat )
Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law
(gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or someVariant
One student, however, wrote the following:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time.
So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell
and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that
once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving.
As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different
religions that exist in the world today.
Most of these religions state that if
you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell.

Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do
not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go
to Hell.

With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of
souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate
of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in
rder for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume
of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.

This gives two possibilities:

1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which
souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will
Increase until all Hell breaks loose.

2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of
souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until
Hell freezes over.

So which is it?

If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my
Freshman yearthat, "It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you," and
take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number
two must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has
Already frozen over.

The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is herefore, extinct...... leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting "Oh my God."

THIS STUDENT RECEIVED THE ONLY "A".